What can you do to support the Canadian Landscape Charter?

SPREAD THE WORD! Distribute copies of the Canadian Landscape Charter to your clients. You can download and print the Charter HERE or contact the CSLA to obtain copies at executive-director@csla-aapc.ca

SPREAD THE WORD, BUT SMALLER! Make the Canadian Landscape Charter postcard available at your events or in your waiting room. To obtain copies of the postcard, contact the CSLA at executive-director@csla-aapc.ca

As an Honorary CSLA member and Interim Associate Dean for the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Calgary, I would like to join those endorsing the Canadian Landscape Charter and Congratulate the CSLA for their leadership and effort in bringing this Charter to the forefront of Landscape practice and education. Mary-Ellen Tyler

MAKE IT PUBLIC! Publicize your support of the Charter's values by adding the following text to your email signature, or by adding the endorsement graphic to your website:I am (or our firm is) committed to upholding the Canadian Landscape Charter:
_recognize landscapes as vital
_consider all people
_inspire stewardship
_expand knowledge
_show leadership
The purpose of the Charter is to recognize, protect, manage and celebrate Canada’s landscapes. Learn more at http://www.csla-aapc.ca/charter

SHARE THE IMAGES OF YOUR FAVOURITE LANDSCAPES AND THE LANDSCAPES OF YOUR DREAMS! Post your favourite and inspiring images of landscapes to Instagram and tag us @csla-aapc

ATTEND ONE OF THE CHARTER EVENTS: The Canadian Landscape Charter will be on a road trip across Canada, in discussion with Jean Landry in a number of Canadian cities. Learn more...

At a reception held in Mexico on the 22nd of May 2015, the CSLA's component associations ratified the Canadian Landscape Charter. In addition, delegates present at the Congress added their names as signatories to their Charter to show support for the declaration. CLICK HERE to view the list of signatories

Context

The CSLA has actively followed IFLA’s ILC project developments since the beginning of the new millennium. Raquel Peñalosa (AAPQ), CSLA delegate to IFLA and IFLA Vice-President for the Americas Regional Council (2014-2016), has worked closely with Martha Fajardo, IFLA Past President and coordinator of the Latin America Landscape Initiative (LALI), at the 2011 and 2012 IFLA Regional Conference workshops. This collaboration has helped advance current projects and supported the development of numerous landscape charters amongst Latin America IFLA members.

About the Canadian Landscape Charter

The format of the Canadian Landscape Charter was devised to reinforce the diversity of characteristics to be found in the Canadian provinces and territories while, at the same time, developing shared values articulated around a common vision which reflects how CSLA members professionally interact with all forms of landscape. The key objectives of the CLCI were to:

Provide Canada’s Landscape Architects with a landscape charter that shares priorities and values identified by our international colleagues while protecting our particular characteristics and identity

Develop a landscape charter that highlights the values and approaches advocated by Canada’s landscape architects

Identify subjects, themes or specialties impacting landscapes and, ultimately, aspects of landscape architecture that could be more developed or studied, both at the national and regional levels. Landscape architecture could gain from vertical and horizontal integration.

Given the Canadian context, in which both the vastness of the territory and its regional socio-economic, historical and cultural diversity must be considered and respected, the bottom-up approach privileged by IFLA seems the most appropriate. CSLA representatives involved in the process promoted the development of practical responses, modelled on those expressed by IFLA.